About This Artwork
John Singleton Copley
American, 1738-1815
Sketch for "Siege of Gibraltar"1785-89
Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on blue laid paper
329 x 252 mm
Inscribed verso, upper center, in graphite: J.S. Copley / Sketch Siege of Gib; upper left, in graphite: 7193 in circle; lower right, in graphite: 24
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, 1998.121
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, John Singleton Copley, 1966.
AIC, Gifts of a Lifetime, Old Master Drawings, Dec. 11, 1998– Mar. 28, 1999, checklist 39.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 78, cat. 49 (ill.).
Publication History
Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 78, cat. 49 (ill.).
Ownership History
Lord Aberdare (direct descendant of artist). Sold by Thomas Agnew, London, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Feb. 16, 1968, her stamp (COLLECTION / DBE / COLLECTION; not in Lugt) verso, lower left, in black, and (COLLECTION… ; not in Lugt) lower right, in pink.